Lloyd's Insurers Stumble over Computer Leasing (1979)nytimes.com3 points·by cett·قبل 3 سنوات·1 comments
cett·الشهر الماضي·discussReminds me a bit of how in the UK the guinea coin ceased to circulate decades ago but it's still used for bidding on racehorse auctions.1 guinea = 1.05 poundsYou purchase the horse in guineas, seller gets paid in pounds, auctioneer keeps the missing 5% as commission.
cett·قبل 4 أشهر·discuss'Universal' 110V AC sockets are definitely feasible and offered by some airlines (on some equipment).E.g ANA: https://www.ana.co.jp/en/jp/guide/inflight/service/seat_plug...Related Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EmPower_(aircraft_power_adapte...
cett·قبل سنتين·discussIt's more likely that the flight in question was using the three letter ICAO code in its passenger facing flight number. I have never known a three character IATA code to be used despite it technically being within the specification.
cett·قبل 3 سنوات·discussI found that partitioning the table to allow parallel auto vacuuming was necessary to scale.
cett·قبل 3 سنوات·discussDefinitely doable with HAProxy + lua. I've used it extensively for load balancing stateful apps.
1 guinea = 1.05 pounds
You purchase the horse in guineas, seller gets paid in pounds, auctioneer keeps the missing 5% as commission.